Network wiring problem...Help

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I'm sure that I getting ready to show just how ignorant I am .... but here goes.....

I went out to set up a small Network today and I usually run all the wiring with Cat5 myself.....When I got there they had hired a seperate company to run all the wires which was fine with me....I went into the closet where the modem, router and dsl connection was coming in expecting to see the internet wire coming in from the ISP and 1 Cat 5 wire for each of the eight computer connections. All that is in there however, is the 29 phone lines, the incoming service for the DSL connection and 1 cat 5 wire which the guy that ran the wires told me was the connection to all of the computer connections that he had ran. Puzzeled I couldn't tell him that I had no idea what he had done......Can someone please explain this to me so that I don't make a complete fool of myself........

Thanks
 
Hmm..., well it sounds like he might have set up some sort of connection to reduce the clutter in the closet... All you should need is the modem to connent the DSL to and then you should be all set... He might have a router set up somewhere else in the building that all of the computers are connected to. Do you need to do anything with the phone lines, or is that just where the hub is for those connections as well?
 
The problem is it looks like he ran all of the computer connections on one wire....kind of like a daisy chain....There's not a seperate wire for each connection......
 
No nothing to do with phone lines that just where they are connecting to the hub....There's no other router in the building
 
What an idiot, it sounds as if he has used the dreaded BUS topolgy to build the network structure. This means if just one PC in the line is not functioning then all of the PC's after that one will not work. This is an awful structure, as you said a much better topolgy would be to have a seperate cable for each computer, this is called a STAR structure.
 
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